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4 Smart Strategies That Are Driving Sales in a Slow-Growth Year
As spending declines from pandemic-fueled highs, the largest retailers are seeking creative solutions and new ways of connecting with consumers that SMBs can adopt, too.
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How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Changing How Marketers Sell Everything From Food to Fashion
While apps like ChatGPT and Dall-E get most of the AI attention, AI is quietly changing how we buy and sell goods and services.
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How Slow Fashion Is Creating Opportunities for Startups and Legacy Brands Alike
A movement that started as a backlash to disposable fast fashion has expanded to include made-to-order and made-in-the-U.S. manufacturing.
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The Zero-Waste Movement Is Creating Opportunities for Businesses Large and Small
With a growing number of consumers looking for alternatives to single-use disposables and plastic packaging, businesses from mass retailers to Main Street merchants are heeding their call.
How Startups Are Monetizing the Booming Food Waste Business
Tech platforms Misfits Market, Too Good to Go and Goodr connect food companies with opportunities to divert their waste and improve their bottom lines at the same time.
How Retailers Are Revamping Recruiting in a Tight Labor Market
Merchants including Walmart, Macy’s and CVS are looking beyond wages to attract talent in a competitive environment, offering flexible schedules and gym memberships to career advancement training.
Tech Startups Monetize Pandemic-Fueled ‘Buy Local’ Movement
COVID-19 has spiked consumer demand for local and American-made products, and these companies, backed by investors like Mark Cuban, are making it easier to buy them.
Brands Like Joybird Are Revamping Their Consumer Ad Strategies
To break through online advertising clutter, brands embrace data-driven, ‘out of the box’ consumer messaging strategies.
How Big Brands Are Leveraging Micro-Influencers to Spur Growth
Executives from the bracelet and beverage brands, plus swimwear disruptor Andie, reveal how these ‘grassroots’ marketers are delivering a healthy return on investment for their businesses.
Big Brands Court Gen Z With Inclusive Messaging and ‘Realness’
Aerie, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Doritos are tapping a targeted marketing playbook to appeal to this generation of consumers.
How Stores Can Prepare for an Unusual Holiday Season
Early shopping, out-of-stock products and increased customer expectations will present challenges for retailers. Here’s how SMBs can leverage their edge.
How Startups Bookshop.org, New Masters Academy and FitVine Wine Achieved Profitability
The founders of Bookshop.org, New Masters Academy and FitVine Wine on leveraging their unique positions in the marketplace to reach a coveted business milestone: profitability.
How Brands Like Barbie & Looney Tunes Are Monetizing Licensing
Marketers of everything from toys to T-shirts tap NFTs, social causes and DTC sales to grow business and win over today’s consumers, which could help connect smaller brands to bigger audiences.